It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.